Disqus - Latest Comments for eurotransient

Re: Disqus: The Official Blog - Disqus Comments: Set a default avatar for your site

eurotransient — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:35:41 -0000

I'd definitely like to see a random avatar generator at least as an option. It's all well and good to want everyone to sign up for Disqus, but the fact of the matter is that if we're going to allow people to comment without signing up, we should at least be able to dress the icons up a bit more than just having a single icon to represent them all.

Re: Add Tumblr Comments to Liquid Typo Theme

eurotransient — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:08:16 -0000

Well, assuming you've placed the second part of the add comment code, then "comment (view)" should be replaced with however you have your Disqus account set up to display comments.

When you look at your entry, is your comment box showing up at the bottom of the individual post's page?

Re: Lifestream With A Little Help From Your Friendfeed

eurotransient — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:38:58 -0000

I actually didn't do anything to the comment author section; by default it just put the author's name inline. If you have a situation where it\'s disappearing off to the right, it could be related adding the \"white-space: normal !important" as described above.

I dug around and it looks like you should be able to tweak the look of the comment author by adding some CSS to .friendfeed.widget a.l_person. I don't have any multi-comment posts, though, to see if that class only gets assigned once. (Note, that's a lowercase L, not a one!)

What is it you're trying to accomplish?

Re: Lifestream With A Little Help From Your Friendfeed

eurotransient — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:44:06 -0000

No problem at all! I'd love to see what you do with the images. I, too, am a little underwhelmed by how they appear by default.

Re: Lifestream With A Little Help From Your Friendfeed

eurotransient — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:47:36 -0000

Glad to help. I looked into what you're describing. I'm not sure how exactly you were hoping to make the images look, but from what I can tell you need to look for the CSS code that starts ".friendfeed.widget .feed .entry .media img {...}", and adjust the default styles between the curly brackets to fit your needs. You can't actually change any of the html, though, because that's being pulled into your site via JavaScript; to alter that, you'd need to be able to change it at the source, which you can't.

Word of warning, though: That particular element string will change how ALL of your images look, not just Amazon wishlist items. Friendfeed doesn't differentiate or apply classes to WHERE the feed is coming in from. Be warned, too, that any pulls from video sites will also be affected by whatever styles you apply, since those are being displayed in your lifestream as thumbnails.

Hope this helps, and don't forget the !important at the end of your styles!

Re: Lifestream With A Little Help From Your Friendfeed

eurotransient — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:20:05 -0000

Nice coincidence indeed! What's funny is when I put that tagline way back when, I didn't even realize I was taking it from Slaughterhouse-Five, despite having read it dozens of times. It wasn't until after Kurt Vonnegut passed away that I realized. Thanks for noticing!

Re: Create an awesome lifestream with FriendFeed

eurotransient — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:53:29 -0000

Thanks for the link back!

Re: Create an awesome lifestream with FriendFeed

eurotransient — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:29:25 -0000

Huge thank you for this! I built my own lifestream and it came out gorgeously. Feel free to check it out: http://www.eurotransient.com/stream.

Re: Add Tumblr Comments to Liquid Typo Theme

eurotransient — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:26:41 -0000

What's the link to your site? I can take a peek. It's worth pointing out, too, that Disqus seems to have some more thorough instructions now for integrating their comment system into Tumblr, so that might be more up to date than mine, but I can still look if you like.

Re: High Definition Vision

eurotransient — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:23:04 -0000

Hah! This is outstanding!

Re: Create a WordPress Navigation Link to External URL

eurotransient — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:22:03 -0000

Thanks for the tip! One thing, though: When I cut and paste straight from your article it copied into my text editor with smart single quotes, which led to a parsing error. Just might want to give a heads up on that one!

Once I cleaned out the smart quotes for non-smart quotes, everything worked like a charm!

Re: Add Tumblr Comments to Liquid Typo Theme

eurotransient — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:21:42 -0000

I'm glad I could help!

Re: EGO...trip - DVD, Blu-Ray, iPod; in which format did you buy...

eurotransient — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:02:12 -0000

None... I had to ask for SOMETHING for Christmas! That said, I asked for it on Blu-Ray, which includes the lovely digital copy version. Best of, well, two worlds anyway.

Re: The Way We Used To Play Madden

eurotransient — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:44:48 -0000

Wow, that's quite a workaround! Sort of ridiculous to have to be made to jump through hoops like this, but good on you for finding a way.

Re: The Way We Used To Play Madden

eurotransient — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:07:28 -0000

Was there an update of some kind? Sorry, I tried googling it and I've found no evidence otherwise. It still only allows one profile at a time as best I can tell.

Re: The Way We Used To Play Madden

eurotransient — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:27:26 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Scott! You make an excellent point that I hadn't considered, which is that Madden's vast popularity automatically puts it outside of any sort of niche market of people who'd be interested in putting their consoles online, particularly if you consider Xbox Live's yearly cost, an amount I suspect many a fellow who ONLY plays Madden is not going to bother paying, assuming their 360 is even online in the first place.

I've never really spent much time with Tiger Woods, but it's sad to see that EA's decision to nix personal profiles for the most part has become more or less universal. I can't speak to the rest of their lineup. I picked up 08 versions of NHL and FIFA, but they went largely unplayed for similar reasons to those described in my experience with Madden.

Re: EGO...trip - Nintendo’s bragging…again: 608,000 DS and 555,000...

eurotransient — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:50:11 -0000

Isn't it about time to retire Wii Play from the sales charts? Please? Bueller?

Re: Pinksage - o hai

eurotransient — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:15:47 -0000

Dreamcats are in your SNES!

Re: Add Tumblr Comments to Liquid Typo Theme

eurotransient — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:01:44 -0000

@Joey Thanks for the kind words! I've never written up a tutorial like this before, I'm glad to see it was useful for someone!

Re: Pinksage - thanks marvel and lucas for toys.

eurotransient — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:53:49 -0000

That is far and away the most adorable Thing I've ever seen. Even his grimace is kinda cute!

Re: Pinksage - Just added comments to you, my dear Tumblr. Lets...

eurotransient — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:03:51 -0000

What an excellent idea! I too would like to add coments to my Tumblr!

Re: Just shy of 12,000 views on our video. Not too shabby.

eurotransient — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:00:51 -0000

Well done, good sirs! You're also up and coming on Digg at the moment, though the link is to DCist. In any case, Digg link here: http://urltea.com/2wzl

Re: In Regards to Alpha Omega

eurotransient — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:26:10 -0000

@Freda

That's one of a number of sites that showed up after this whole thing started up, trying to capitalize on some speculation to create traffic to an unrelated site. Also, the ethanhaas.org site isn't directly related to the creators of the game. They definitely seem to be trying to create a little false buzz, but there are some forums over there that people have taken to and seem pretty legitimate.

Re: Abrams Denies Ethan Haas?

eurotransient — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:06:39 -0000

@Mal

ethanhaas.org has nothing to do with the movie. It's been discussed a million times in a million other places. Remember, any jackass can start up a site.

Re: A Response From John Schneckel

eurotransient — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:33:40 -0000

@ Quiksilver77

I'm a bit uncertain what the image you link to is drawn from? I did a whois on badrobot.com and the image is of, well, the bad robot.

My guess would be that the page that shows up with Triton Enterprises is just kind of a default page that shows up when a domain has been registered, but nothing has been put up yet. It seems pretty standard like that, which could be why it shows up elsewhere. The bad robot image could be an old capture for the whois service you checked?